Chief Stipe

Don't harness still allow it?

You have no idea what the reasons were for Sharrock electing to scratch. Perhaps given the paucity of jockey's around at the moment he wasn't too keen to put a lower quality jock up.

Rule Number(s): 869(4)(6)(b)(c)Following the running of Race 2, the Ashburton U Hire Pace, an Information was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr P Williams against Open Driver, Mr D White alleging a breach of Rule 869(4)(6)(b)(c), in that when driving SUDAMAN, he forced TAURUS to race wider on the track near the 1900m. Rule 869(4)(6) ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869(3)(b)Following the running of Race 8, the Rakaia Seed Cleaning Ashburton Cup Handicap Pace, an Information was filed by Stipendiary Steward, Mr P Williams, against Open Driver, Mr C DeFilippi, alleging a breach of Rule 869(3)(b) in that when driving DADNDAVE, he eased the pace which caused interference to ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869(3)(b)Subsequent to the running of Race 5, Mr Mulcay submitted an Information in which he alleged that Open Driver Ms M Teaz when she drove LOVE AND FAITH drove carelessly caused interference to KEYSTONE COMET with resultant interference to CEPHEUS approaching the 400 metres. Ms Teaz was present at the hearing ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869(4) and Shifting Ground RegulationsAfter the running of Race 11, Mr Mulcay submitted an Information in which he alleged that Junior Driver, Mr Whittaker 'failed to concede his position driving BANKERS GOLD to IDEAL AGENT approaching the 1800 metres causing his own horse to break from its gait'. Mr Whittaker, assisted by Mr McCaffrey who ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Rule Number(s): 869A(2)Following the runnng of Race 2, the Informant Mr Mulcay initiated a protest by way of an Information. He alleged that RICHMOND TIGER, driven by Mr Drake shifted in over the final stages and locked wheels with ' TE AMO ' driven by Mr Herlihy which was checked. The Judges placings were: 1st - THEE OLD ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Two false starts so far at Gore in Race 1!

Hazel Schofer was to ride Darci La Bella 1kg over at 56kg. Late Scratched by Stewards apparently. Update - the trainer Alan Sharrock seems to have scratched her. That means that for Schofer to claim her two kg's she can only ride horses weighted at 58kg's!

Tom Waterhouse slammed for weird Christmas posts alongside models and goats December 26, 2020 8:30am by JAMES MATTHEY Source: news.com.au Tom Waterhouse had an unusual Christmas.Source: Twitter The Waterhouse family must do things a little differently to the rest of us. Tom Waterhouse — the son of famous bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse and legendary horse trainer Gai Waterhouse — confused everyone on the internet with a seriously weird social media post wishing his followers a merry Christmas. There wasn’t a leg of ham to be seen as the former bookie turned racing insider instead posed with animals — including goats and what looks like an alpaca — as well as a handful of women in bikinis to simply say: “From my family to yours, wishing you all Merry Christmas.” Waterhouse is wearing a suit holding a goat out in the countryside, while the women behind him are all wearing flannelette shirts and keeping animals under control. Two of them are wearing wide-brimmed hats. In another post, Waterhouse is wearing a different suit and sitting at the head of a table, in front of platters of fruit and a couple of trophies. In this image, four women stand around him, one appearing to hold a napkin for him, while a rabbit lies on the table. The caption reads: “Good times in Happy Valley.” The replies to Waterhouse’s posts ranged from bemused, to confused, to downright savage. Many users tweeted “WTF” in response. One wrote: “Seen some bizarre s**t on Twitter this year but this takes the cake and chocolates too.” Another added: “What the hell is going on in this photo?” Bizarrely, Waterhouse retweeted hundreds of replies to his photos — be they positive or negative. He retweeted people calling him a marketing genius for generating such a stir, he retweeted those criticising him for such a tactless photo and he retweeted people making fun of him for a bungled attempt to somehow look cool. Whatever the point of it all, it seems all Waterhouse wants for Christmas is for Australia to be talking about him.

Rule Number(s): 330(3)(c)Following the running of the DUNSTAN FEEDS STAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER, an Information was lodged by Senior Stipendiary Steward, Mr M Williamson against Jockey, Mr O P Bosson alleging that Mr Bosson failed to make the contracted weight for GONE WEST. Rule 330(3)(c) provides: A Rider shall not fail ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

Well it is traditional. Remember when the Kiwi breed was tough. Derby at Christmas now Easter!

Do you mean the Welcome Stakes?

Well the word out of the Waikato is that no one needs to bother. Khufu the American Pharaoh colt is too good for anything. Needs to get a curry on. Hasn't won a race yet. Check out its trial on the AWT on Tuesday 22nd at Cambridge.

Go Karrots! You're not a red head are you?

Good luck to them going for 5 in a row. They target the race and seem to keep their horses sound. Interesting that the top qualifier at the moment they are training for Chris Rutten. Good judge that man.

Increasingly the cynic. Should be easy pickings down in the CD with the fields dropping right off. Are you ready for them yet?

That's a bit severe. It is all easily fixed - reignite the oil and gas exploration, invest in the oil refinery, stop wasting borrowed money on non productive projects that generate no wealth, support our primary production sector rather than trying to cut them down all the time, shift bureaucrats out of the super government departments like MPI and MBIE and into productive industries, reinforce our identity as NEW ZEALANDERS and stop this woke nonsense, invest in infrastructure that allows us to work quicker, safer and more productively.....

I get where you are coming from to. Now I'm not defending Kerr as quite frankly you can't. However I've seen and heard of these types of schemes in both horse codes for years. I didn't wake up until the day I received a huge offer for a horse that I owned with another person. Although I had the majority share by a small % I knew the other person didn't want to sell. The agent said "don't tell her until after you have sold." Or the story where a 50% owner of a top line horse woke up one day to see it listed in the sales catalogue! So I just can't understand how some owners have such a hands-off approach to owning a racehorse. It will also be interesting to see what HRNZ do in this matter. From my experience both HRNZ and NZTR seem to put their hands up and say "nothing to do with us, it's a commercial relationship between two external parties." Then the RIU will hope the Police lay charges and get a conviction because that makes their job easy.

I'm not so sure Kiwis will rush back. I'd be waiting to see what the Government's plan is to wean us off this island of isolation. Vaccinating everyone isn't going to to do it. In other words we have just forestalled our pain. You watch what happens when China, the USA and Europe ramp up their economies again. I'm picking when they reach herd immunity (some countries are there already) in the first quarter of next year you'll see a huge surge forward. Why do you think China has been stockpiling cheap oil? NZ will be extremely vulnerable especially since we cut oil and gas exploration and have made the stupid strategic decision to close our refinery down. It is only a temporary situation. It will turn and turn rapidly. We have been led down the garden path but this Government and some very suspect scientific advisors (watch this space!). The latter have been playing out an experiment and need to be exposed.

As I've said before the devil is in the detail. The '21 budget is set to return less to the industry than the year before. TAB NZ (aka NZRB/RITA) have shifted a significant amount of cost to the codes administration. So when they say they distributed "more than budget" to the industry codes it is a bit of smoke and mirrors. From my analysis they are still not making anywhere enough to pay the three contracts that they are hooked into and which they needed a Government bailout to pay or face insolvency. They also have to pay the $35m overdraft back next August or somehow refinance it. With regard to your travel spending analysis - yes you are correct. Why do you think the Government is holding off on a travel bubble with the Cook Islands? It want's the $150 billion it printed spent internally. However that money sloshing around has hotted up the property market even further and luxury goods like new cars, white/black ware - which is all adding to a pressure cooker of inflation. Add in an increase in fuel prices around the end of the first quarter next year, plus a rapidly declining job market and you will start to see a real recession kick in.

Yes but from whom was the "off the record" comments made? It may well be "hundreds of thousands of dollars" but the article has no substantive proof and is no more than hearsay. That's not to say that the journalist is confident in what he infers but the fact is he doesn't corroborate what he has written.

No in the article Ovens doesn't say that. The journalist says "Stuff have since clarified...." Ovens said "the media have made mistakes in their reporting."